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The inovators in this field is Spanish Uro Camper ,their design is clean and functional and even Germans started to copy that . Look into Tom's and Maltec , they moved away from that ugly aircraft boxes design just recently
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Opening the old thread as I decided to go on with the conversion. The plan is following:
* chop the vehicle to extra cab using the CAM fabrication kit from Australia
* extend the chassis 450 mm
* build the box with dimension 3000x185x145
The land cruiser 80 chop is pretty common in the Australia, there is a very good facebook page where all the info is shared run by the Sam Young. The kit for chopping is developed by CAM fabrications and comes with all needed ( even window and rubber gasket ). For the chassis extension I think that wheelbase of around 3300 should be a very good for camper. There are 300, 450, 600, 900 mm extensions for the 80 being again developed by CAM fabrications.
As the camper, I was recently in Germany in BushTaxi treffen ( big Land Cruiser meeting ) and a lot of people are doing the conversion themself. Providing the exact dimensions the nomad campers would just cut the panels, provide the adhesives , even doors can be bought from them.
Attached are the pictures from CAM fabrications.
* chop the vehicle to extra cab using the CAM fabrication kit from Australia
* extend the chassis 450 mm
* build the box with dimension 3000x185x145
The land cruiser 80 chop is pretty common in the Australia, there is a very good facebook page where all the info is shared run by the Sam Young. The kit for chopping is developed by CAM fabrications and comes with all needed ( even window and rubber gasket ). For the chassis extension I think that wheelbase of around 3300 should be a very good for camper. There are 300, 450, 600, 900 mm extensions for the 80 being again developed by CAM fabrications.
As the camper, I was recently in Germany in BushTaxi treffen ( big Land Cruiser meeting ) and a lot of people are doing the conversion themself. Providing the exact dimensions the nomad campers would just cut the panels, provide the adhesives , even doors can be bought from them.
Attached are the pictures from CAM fabrications.
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The wheel base of these are
Mercedes X :3150 mm
Defender: 3226 mm
Mercedes G: 3428 mm
The 80 has wheel base of 2850 + 450 mm extension = 3300 mm
All camper boxes in below pictures are 3000 mm long and around 1900 - 2000 mm wide
Mercedes X :3150 mm
Defender: 3226 mm
Mercedes G: 3428 mm
The 80 has wheel base of 2850 + 450 mm extension = 3300 mm
All camper boxes in below pictures are 3000 mm long and around 1900 - 2000 mm wide
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I will have the camper box with straight walls , the same way as here, bellow pictures are from the bush taxi forum:
( pretty recent build ), the box dimensions are 261x193x140cm.
Having the CAM Fabrications ute tray mounts a little bit higher then the mounts of Uwe I think that 140 cm box height will be too much:
Das Heck muss weg - Seite 5
Hallo zusammen, lange ist es her das ich hier meinen Toyo vorgestellt habe, fast 10 Jahre , und in der Zeit etliche Umbau und "Problem Threads" gestar
forum.buschtaxi.org
Having the CAM Fabrications ute tray mounts a little bit higher then the mounts of Uwe I think that 140 cm box height will be too much:
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This is the picture of off road schmiede , this 80 has 500 mm frame extension. You can find video from Ronny Dahl about this vehicle.
Build pictures: HDJ80 mit 500mm Rahmenverlängerung - https://off-road-schmiede.com/index.php/en/hdj80-mit-500mm-rahmenverlaengerung
Build pictures: HDJ80 mit 500mm Rahmenverlängerung - https://off-road-schmiede.com/index.php/en/hdj80-mit-500mm-rahmenverlaengerung
good material
Luke111
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Have you seen this guys build? Not an 80
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I know that guy, the way how he builds is not up to date. Today the camper boxes are constructed a bit differently from how it was done before. The composite panels are glued together without any aluminum frame. There are composite profiles which are glued to the corners.
Following is the video of the cabin from the nomadcampers, as mentioned nomadcampers would provide the cabin as a kit with everything needed. Panels, profiles, glue, they even can provide the doors and windows.
Doors and flaps:
Doors and Service Doors for Motorhomes and Caravans - Mekuwa GmbH
The range of MEKUWA door systems are produced in the highest quality. Easy to install. Long service life thanks to the use of high-quality materials. Produced as lightweight aluminium constructions, thus saving energy and resources.
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